featuring Jelte Lagendijk

If you’re looking for best practices and new ways to develop widgets in Mendix, view this webcast for expert advice and a real-world view of the new tools available for widget development.

We will show you how to build a widget using the brackets editor with a plugin and will review the Yeoman generator and the Grunt task runner. Whether you are building new widgets or want to speed development and debugging in your existing widgets, this webinar is for you. You’ll learn how to:

Scaffold a widget in a minute

Speed up development using Grunt

Update existing widgets

Kickstart your Widget Development

Yeoman in itself is strictly a command-line client and, we intend to use it like that. From what I have seen, there are Yeoman plugins for editors, like Atom and Sublime Text, that will let you use Yeoman within your editor. We’ll investigate that. This generator is still under development, so there might be changes in the future. The basics stay the same.

We have a how-to article. Use the generator instead of Brackets and start from 3.1 “Exploring the Custom Widget XML Files”.

Furthermore, if you want to learn how widgets work, download the source of one of our widgets on GitHub and try to find out how it works. You can find it at https://github.com/mendix. Questions can be asked on the forum. Experiment with it (Using Grunt, it’s quite easy to adapt a widget and see what happens).